Streaming to the iPad while in your residence is always unrestricted. Streaming outside your home is more dependent on your cable provider. If you have Time Warner, most everything will be blocked outside of the home. Other providers can be hit or miss. Post your Provider and region and someone here might be able to chime in.

While streaming at home is unrestricted, the Tivo Stream cannot currently handle MPEG-4 channels. There are very few channels using MPEG-4 right now, and I've never run into any issues streaming shows with my Fios service, but your mileage may vary (and others may want to weigh in on what channels they get that are using MPEG-4).

Anyone know what Charter's policies in Wisconsin (Madison area) are with regard to streaming?

If it's like Charter's polices everywhere else in the nation, the Stream is useless outside your house. I have Cox and they copy protect everything except the broadcast channels, and my Stream is all but useless the second I leave the house.

While streaming at home is unrestricted, the Tivo Stream cannot currently handle MPEG-4 channels. There are very few channels using MPEG-4 right now, and I've never run into any issues streaming shows with my Fios service, but your mileage may vary (and others may want to weigh in on what channels they get that are using MPEG-4).

Actually that is not true. Depending on your provider, as much as 98% are H.264. Cincinnati Bell Fioptics uses H.264 for EVERYTHING except broadcast networks. Companies are going to that format, to get rid of Tuning Adapters.